A Slight Delay

[bardiphouka]

Written for brigits_flame
Prompt=evolution
wc=138
genre=humour




Somewhere on a planet, here or somewhere else, in a galaxy around us or far,far away, was a shore line. And one day at 8:42A.M. (if time had been invented) a not quite fish hovered at the edge between water and land.

Ah yes indeed, the portents in its shadows were mighty. Evolution has to take a leap at some point, doesn't it? Today a not quite fish, but with eons and eons of descendents leading to a stoke broker or a Reality Show presenter. Which one can imagine is not really that much of a leap.

The not quite fish took what might have been a breath, felt the already overly warm Sun and decided someone else could take the blame for the future. It scuttled off happily in the water, never to be heard from again.

Comments

[bluegerl.livejournal.com]

Oh Bardi, What a wise not-quite-fish... maybe he'd sussed the quote for today... Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved! So he chose to live it!

I LOVE these little 'thoughts' you pop up! Have a good day. xxx Blue.

[bardiphouka.livejournal.com]

glad you enjoyed..although I am not quite sure what to call them.

[bluegerl.livejournal.com]

I believe you could call them 'Rhipidistia' related to the family Dipnoi... teehee. The lungfish (dipnoi) were the ones we USED to believe crawled out of the water and evoluted to a land animal etc... but now it has gone through the Ceolocanth stage and is now resting on the fins of the Rhipidistia. I like to think of this little fella having a thought balloon saying 'Sod this for a lark - I'll let some other eejit do it!'

I salute your little Rhipidistia... Your Looloo.